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Working NZ: A Young Persons Guide to benefit reform

16 Nov 2006
Donna Wynd gives an overview of the latest benefit reform proposal, the "Working NZ" package - and notes some of its implications for families with children.
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Donna Wynd: Violence against Children

26 Jul 2006
Donna Wynd argues that we need to take a harder look at the deeper causes of our high rates of domestic violence and child homicide, if we are to avoid needless deaths in the future.
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Committed to Fairness and Opportunity? The impact of the In Work Payment on Maori and Pasifika families

9 Apr 2006
Rather than reversing existing disadvantage, the burden of discrimination built in to the new In Work Payment (IWP) will fall particularly hard on Maori and Pasifika families, says author Donna Wynd.
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